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The Denkyira Chest
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The novel's hero, Johnie Savage, is an adventurer in pursuit of a family heirloom from the kingdom of The Nederlands in the European Low Countries to the islands of Eko in the Gulf of Guinea. Through that single journey, a saga spanning three centuries and generations of a Dutch family and its early beer industries finally plays out in Lagos. Set substantially in the 19th Century as the so-called 'Scramble for Africa' got underway, The Denkyira Chest is however an alternative narrative of that era, off the well-beaten track of culture conflict. For about a decade now, there has been a boom in what the author himself has, elsewhere, referred to as "the twilight narratives" of that era. The uniqueness of The Denkyira Chest is the use of creative license to draw the Dutch-Africa connection to the shores of Lagos using the opportunity to explore the narrative of a city whose shores, more than any other, witnessed the Middle Passage and the 'return passage
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